Practising with Deleuze: Design, Dance, Art, Writing, Philosophy

233 Pages·2017·4.847 MB·English

by  Suzie Attiwill, Terri Bird, Andrea Eckersley, Antonia Pont, Jon Roffe, Philipa Rothfield

Practising with Deleuze
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Practising with Deleuze
Design, Dance, Art, Writing,
Philosophy
Suzie Attiwill, Terri Bird,
Andrea Eckersley, Antonia Pont,
Jon Roffe and Philipa Rothfi eld
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© Suzie Attiwill, Terri Bird, Andrea Eckersley, Antonia Pont, Jon Roffe and
Philipa Rothfi eld, 2017
Introduction © Gregory Flaxman, 2017
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Contents
List of Figures vi
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Co-Authors ix
1. Introduction: Deleuze: In Practice 1
Gregory Flaxman
2. Philosophising Practice 16
Antonia Pont
3. Forming 49
Terri Bird
4. Framing – ?interior 87
Suzie Attiwill
5. Experience and its Others 120
Philipa Rothfi eld
6. Enc ountering Surfaces, Encountering Spaces,
Encountering Painting 162
Andrea Eckersley
7. Practising Philosophy 183
Jon Roffe
Bibliography 199
Index 213
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List of Figures
3.1 Pub lic Share, clay collection site at Wiri,
Well-Connected Alliance worksite – Wednesday,
26 November 2014. Photographer: Public Share. 69
3.2 Smo ko (Part 1), Morning tea break, Performing
Mobilities Assembly, Federation Hall, University
of Melbourne – Saturday, 10 October 2015.
Photographer: Public Share. 71
3.3 Smo ko (Part 2), Well-Connected Allian c e, Wiri site
tearooms – Monday, 13 June 2016. Photographer:
Public Share. 71
5.1 Tri sha Brown Dance Company, Melbourne, 2014.
Photographer: Ron Fung. 126
5.2 Tri sha Brown Dance Company, Melbourne, 2014.
Photographer: Ron Fung. 133
5.3 Debo rah Hay, Learning Curve, Dancehouse,
Melbourne, 2014. Photographer: Gregory Lorenzetti. 145
5.4 Dance Exchange, Australia (director: Russell Dumas).
Dancers: Jonathon Sinatra, Nicole Jenvey. Photographer:
Russell Dumas. 146
6.1 Andr ea Eckersley, Surface event #1, 2014. Oil, acrylic,
enamel, gesso and painted wood panel on wall.
Dimensions variable. 168
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vii LI ST OF FIGURES
6.2 Andr ea Eckersley, Surface event #3, 2014. Oil, acrylic,
gesso, gouache, wax, gloss and sanded back sections
on wall. Dimensions variable. 172
6.3 Andr ea Eckersley, Depth is as good as range, 2014.
Acrylic, gesso, gouache and sanded back sections
on wall. Dimensions variable. 173
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Acknowledgements
This book developed out of a series of seminars initiated by Terri
Bird and held in 2014 at West Space, an artist-led organisation in
Melbourne. These seminars, ‘Practising: A series of seminars explor-
ing the writing of Deleuze’, aimed to unpack some of the key ideas
in the writings of Gilles Deleuze, and those written together with
Félix Guattari, from the perspective of contemporary creative prac-
tices. Each seminar was a dialogue between a creative practitioner
and Jon Roffe, focused on a particular aspect of practice: form-
ing, framing, experiencing, encountering, practising. Each practi-
tioner approached the topic from the perspective of their specifi c
fi eld: Terri Bird – sculpture, Suzie Attiwill – interior design, Philipa
Rothfi eld – dance, Andrea Eckersley – painting, and Antonia Pont
– creative writing.
We would like to thank West Space for making the gallery avail-
able, for hosting and facilitating these seminars. In addition we’d
like to acknowledge the signifi cant role of the Melbourne School
of Continental Philosophy. The creative practitioners met while
attending various courses given by Jon Roffe, on the philosophy of
Deleuze, over the past ten years or so at the MSCP. The MSCP con-
tinues to make a major contribution to supporting a broad engage-
ment with the work of a wide range of philosophers through its
programme of seminars, courses and events.
We would also like to gratefully thank Gregory Flaxman for his
remarkable Introduction, which frames and illuminates the discus-
sions of practising that come after it so well, and Haydie Gooder for
the excellent Index (both of which were produced under draconian
time constraints).
The publication of this volume was supported by The School of
Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales.
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Notes on Co-Authors
Suzie Attiwill is Associate Professor, Interior Design and Deputy
Dean of learning and teaching in the School of Architecture and
Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Since 1991, her
practice has involved exhibition design, curatorial work, writing
and teaching. Projects pose questions of interior and interiority
in relation to contemporary conditions of living, inhabitation,
subjectivity, pedagogy and praxis. Her creative practice research
is conducted through a practice of designing with a curatorial
infl ection attending to arrangements (and rearrangements) of spa-
tial, temporal and material relations. Previous roles include Artistic
Director, Craft Victoria; Chair, West Space Artist-Led Initiative;
Chair, IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators
Association); and Executive Editor, IDEA Journal.
Terri Bird is an artist, primarily practising with the collaborative
group Open Spatial Workshop, which includes Bianca Hester and
Scott Mitchell. They were winners of the inaugural Melbourne
Prize for Urban Sculpture in 2005, instigated the west Brunswick
Sculpture Triennial in 2009, and exhibited ‘Converging in Time’
at MUMA in 2017. She is a senior lecturer in the Fine Art Depart-
ment at Monash University, and completed her PhD in the Centre
for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash Uni-
versity in 2007.
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